(The Hill) President Trump’s campaign is spending money to defend Ohio, an unexpected development that underscores the president’s polling weakness amid the coronavirus pandemic and civil unrest wracking the country.

Trump won Ohio by 8 points in 2016, and Democrats failed to flip any House seats there in 2018, which was an otherwise big year…[Read more]

This is a Vichy Democrat bill, and the devil’s going to be in the details, which I don’t know yet. Some of the proposed changes to federal statute do sound quite promising, especially the licensing and certification part, but who does the licensing and certifying?

I don’t trust them, but if they do really run on some sort of tangible national law…[Read more]

(Politico) A sweeping new police reform bill being drafted by House and Senate Democrats would ban chokeholds, limit “qualified immunity” for police officers, create a national misconduct registry, end the use of no-knock warrants in drug cases and make lynching a federal crime among other dramatic changes, according to an outline being cir…[Read more]

Ever. Good cops won’t mind that. Nearly all current city cops will fight such a thing tooth and nail, by fair means and foul, which indicates the scale of the wholesale change in policing that this country needs and deserves.

@davidthegnome Since that would include all black people, they would have more disposable income and therefore have the means to make their own case for reparations and how such reparations would take place.

There are some things on which most decent people will agree, like everyone should have quality education and a living income. Get everybody…[Read more]

@mrmickeysmom Ayup. Manufacturing consent for the actions of the corporatist kleptocracy’s hired thugs while making a profit. My Communist grandpa would have still remembered enough of his Methodist upbringing to describe it as fiendish.